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Clowes New Yorker illustration in running for magazine cover of the year

Dan Clowes' New Yorker cover

Daniel Clowes' cover for the May 11 issue of The New Yorker is among the finalists in the Association of Magazine Editors' cover of the year contest at Amazon.com.

You can vote for your favorites in 10 categories, from Best Obama Cover to Best in News & Business to Sexiest Cover, and be entered to win a $10,000 gift card from Amazon.

Voting on the finalist will run through Sept. 20. Voting for the grand-prize winner will open the following day. Winners will be announced Oct. 14 at the Magazine Publishers of America's Innovation Summit in New York City.

Clowes will release his original graphic novel Wilson in May 2010 through Drawn & Quarterly.

(via FishbowlNY)

SDCC '09 | 15 announcements that make us happy

Bone: Quest for the Spark

San Diego Comic-Con is always a wild ride filled with crazy cosplayers, Hollywood hype and just generally somewhat-controlled chaos. In the midst of it all, a few comic book announcements managed to sneak out.

Here are 15 of those announcements (in no particular order) that Kevin Melrose, Chris Mautner and I were happy to hear:

1. New Bone books
So it looks like one of those new books isn't going to be comics but a novel written by Tom Sniegoski and illustrated by Smith. Which is a bit of a bummer, but only a bit. I'm still pretty psyched to see more stories set in that universe and Sniegoski has proven himself to be an able and witty writer on stuff like the Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures mini series, which, by the way, will be included in the Tall Tales book. So yeah, this is great news all around. I'm eager for more Bone. --Chris Mautner

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SDCC '09 | Drawn & Quarterly to release Clowes graphic novel

From "Wilson," by Daniel Clowes

Drawn & Quarterly has acquired the world rights to Daniel Clowes' original graphic novel Wilson.

This will be the cartoonist's first book not to be originally serialized in his Fantagraphics comic Eightball, and his first work for D&Q.

Described by the publisher as "a thoroughly engaging, complex and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist," Wilson features "a single-page gag format and drawn in a spectrum of styles." The full-color graphic novel will be released in May 2010.

Dan Clowes does New Yorker cover, drops hints on next book

Dan Clowes' New Yorker cover

In addition to providing a fantastic cover to this week's issue of the New Yorker, Dan Clowes also gave Leigh Stein the briefest of hints about the graphic novel he's currently working on:

“I don’t even have a title for it yet,” he told me, but hinted that the plot concerned “a guy whose father dies, and he’s completely alone, so he tries to reconstruct what he’s lost, to approximate a nuclear family by joining people together.” Each page of the book is an individual scene, a joke on the format of a Sunday cartoon strip, but cumulatively the scenes create a larger narrative that turns from comic to tragic.

If that doesn't whet your appetite enough, Stein also posted a slide show of preliminary sketches from the upcoming book.